The Metropolitan Police said there had been 212 arrests by 4.50pm on Saturday afternoon at a protest in central London against the Palestine Action ban.
The force said officers were “continuing to make arrests where people are showing support for a proscribed organisation”
Around 100 officers advanced on Palestine Action demonstrators in pairs at the base of Trafalgar Square before making multiple arrests.
Several protesters were carried out of the crowd, including one woman who asked for a pause as she was lifted away, prompting bystanders to shout “stop harming women” as police briefly set her down before continuing.
More than a hundred people, some of whom were holding Palestine flags and wearing keffiyehs, congregated in Trafalgar Square on Saturday afternoon.
One man held a cardboard cut out of Sir Keir Starmer with text that read “I support genocide. I oppose Palestine action”.
Some 10 police vans were parked by the square and demonstrators unfurled a banner reading “Holocaust survivor descendants against Gaza genocide”.
